Good luck man, and congrats on getting your baby back. I know how it feels to be without one's pride and joy.

Man...all of this talk is making me skeptical about picking up an 8 in a couple of months...think the new ones coming in from Japan will have the problem resolved?

 

I have one of the first ones made ... i have no issues with my 8.

I picked up mine on the 29th of july

 

i was just wondering if any one has had there gauge cluster disasembled or out of the car yet. the reason i am wondering is becouse on the 7's there is a switch on the odomitor. its called a 20,000 mile switch. it runs the car ritch and at a "safe" timming set till 20,000 miles for "proper" engine break-in. i was wondering if any one has hit that milage yet and if you have have you had a noticable increase in power?

ej

 

Baahahaha!!! LOL... A 20,000 mile switch? Baahahaha!!!!

 

The FD really does have a 20k mile switch. There are inspection instructions for it in the RX-7 shop manual.

 

No problems with my 8 either.

Hmmm, so it took 8 days to get your engine completely replaced? That's not too bad...

 

can you provide for the location of this instruction in the shop manual...

 

if the seal the dealership was referrin to was a coolant seal failure....
coolant entry into the combustion area will produce thick white smoke upon startup..
i'm more than willing to say RX GR8T ...that with the inexperience of the dealership.. ..
that theyve simply took the easier route of stating motor replacement....
have you asked how it was diagnosed per chance..

 

F-175

 

I got my car back last night. It took the shop 8 days to replace the engine (3 to get it from southern California.) So now I'm breaking in the new one and I've started a separate mileage log for "Engine B."

The repair manifest diagnoses the problem as "coolant leak at rear rotor housing at the stationary gear housing."

 

How was the quality of their work? Engine look clean? Everything running well?

 

what a crock of ****, I suggest returning it

 

From page F-175.. I'm a bit surprised how quickly folks jump to ridicule something they don't know anything about...

Also the FC rx7's have a 20k mile switch also (page F2-84) so it's likely the rx8 could have a similar setup.

 

You guys should give up on ford products and buy a real car like an mr2.

 

Hahaha, that is great, I love the analogy, it really is a big mac.

 

How many of you that have had engine problems have automatic transmisions? I want to know if there may be some corralation (sp) becuase they are diffrent from the manual versions.

 

its on f189 in my shop manual..
its not ridicule on my part.. just seeking info..
havin gone through 4 fds and an fc.. im curious as ive never actually understood the function of the mileage switch stated in the manual..
im lookin for where it actually explains its purpose and substantiate these fuel safe mode statements..

 

Lol...Damn car.

 

Cool...now where do I stick the kids and groceries?

 

are they selling the blown Renesis engine back?

I'd like to try one on my FD

 

Guess what, einstein, the RX8 is entirely NOT a Ford product. If you are trying to say that it is like the B4000 and the Ford Ranger, go do your homework before posting.

Ford might have made certain models for Mazda in the US in the past, but the 8 is entirely it's own model, and built on decades of racing development.

MR2? Maybe a twin turbo, otherwise, get in the granny lane :D Now if you would have said Supra, that might have shown an ounce of intelligence.

Anyway, all this talk about engines and leaky coolant has me freaked. I guess I'll put some cardboard underneath for a week and see what happens. I noticed also that my gas mileage is hardly over 18 on the highway. I'm wondering if thats a sign that I might have one of the 'bad' engines?

 

Hmmm - there are no coolant passages near the Stationary Gear, it is only oil. It would be more likely that it was from a thru bolt or one of the large water control rings.

Do you think you could find out for us?

Also - does anyone know if this was an issue with materials in the first batch of RX-8's? as I believe there were a few issues here and there.

Thanks.

 

I think the quality of the engine work is fine (mine was the first engine replacement in an 8 that the mechanic had done.) It's clean in there, from what I can see. The new engine idles a little differently than my original, and the shift points on 1st and 2nd gear are a little different. I'm hoping it smooths out a little. I'll give it some time before I take it back to the shop for that.

I'm still on the 2nd tank of gas, so it's hard to say if there's a change in fuel economy (I was getting 18-20 with the original engine.)

 

Mine is a manual transmission.

 

OK... let me get this straight. In this one thread alone there are 3 people that have had to get their engine replaced?! What's up with that?

I can understand many new owners willing to overlook little annoyances due to the ego-pumping, head-turning effect that this car has. But dudes and dudettes, we're talking about replacing the engine not a glove compartment latch here.